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Western Civilization primarily follows the rise and fall of Mesopotamia (the cities that grew between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers), then Ancient Greece, then the Roman Empire. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe gets into feudalism. That lasts for some time before the Black Death caused a labor shortage, which caused a change in thinking and led to the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. It’s a fairly steady progression west, and the study of the old world helps to inform the development of our new world. Some of the older discoveries/inventions/developments, like Euclidean Geometry and Greek tragedy, are still taught. The Romans brought us public works. Learning where the past made mistakes helps to avoid them in the future… but every story is also a part of the time in which it was written.
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